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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mayhew see as a moral defect?
(a) Stealing from those less fortunate.
(b) Working on Sundays.
(c) Not working if one is able to do so.
(d) Not working up to one's full potential.

2. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?
(a) A friend who went to school with him when he was a boy.
(b) His own cousin.
(c) His own brother.
(d) A former gentleman's footman.

3. Altogether, what is the approximate number of women and children?
(a) He has no idea.
(b) 6 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 11 million.

4. For whom did the street clown work for before becoming a clown?
(a) A gang of crossing sweeps.
(b) The constable as a watchboy.
(c) The dockmaster.
(d) His father's employer.

5. What group did the magician join to get away from home?
(a) The Londondarry Circus.
(b) The Circ Ole.
(c) The P.T. Barnum European Circus.
(d) The Greenwich Fair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many were professors and artists?

2. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?

3. How did she pay for her desires?

4. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?

5. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was an ongoing problem for the company from conductors and how did the bus companies combat that problem?

2. What was a "Dolly mop" and who did the author consider one?

3. Why was the clown Mayhew interviewed depressed and why was he a clown?

4. Who did Halliday say were swindlers?

5. What differentiated street folk from patterers?

6. Who was the magician Mayhew interviewed and how did he become a magician?

7. What was the purpose of the mission?

8. What kind of education did many of the street folk have, what types of families did many of them come from and how did many of them start out?

9. What was a casual ward?

10. What was describe that was similar to modern crack houses, what were they like? What happened to the girl the author wrote about who was lured from home?

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